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 PUBLIC LAW 108–195—DEC. 19, 2003

117 STAT. 2893

arrangements under the authority of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as of the date of the enactment of this Act. SEC. 4. CLARIFICATION OF PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORITY.

Subsection (a) of section 705 of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. App. 2155(a)) is amended by inserting after the end of the first sentence the following new sentence: ‘‘The authority of the President under this section includes the authority to obtain information in order to perform industry studies assessing the capabilities of the United States industrial base to support the national defense.’’. SEC. 5. CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION AND RESTORATION.

Section 702 of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. App. 2152) is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraphs (3) through (17) as paragraphs (4) through (18), respectively; (2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new paragraph: ‘‘(3) CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE.—The term ‘critical infrastructure’ means any systems and assets, whether physical or cyber-based, so vital to the United States that the degradation or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on national security, including, but not limited to, national economic security and national public health or safety.’’; and (3) in paragraph (14) (as so redesignated by paragraph (1) of this section), by inserting ‘‘and critical infrastructure protection and restoration’’ before the period at the end of the last sentence. SEC. 6. REPORT ON CONTRACTING WITH MINORITY- AND WOMENOWNED BUSINESSES.

(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Before the end of the 1-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit a report to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives on the extent to which contracts entered into during the fiscal year ending before the end of such 1-year period under the Defense Production Act of 1950 have been contracts with minority- and women-owned businesses. (b) CONTENTS OF REPORT.—The report submitted under subsection (a) shall include the following: (1) The types of goods and services obtained under contracts with minority- and women-owned businesses under the Defense Production Act of 1950 in the fiscal year covered in the report. (2) The dollar amounts of such contracts. (3) The ethnicity of the majority owners of such minorityand women-owned businesses. (4) A description of the types of barriers in the contracting process, such as requirements for security clearances, that limit contracting opportunities for minority- and women-owned businesses, together with such recommendations for legislative or administrative action as the Secretary of Defense may determine to be appropriate for increasing opportunities for contracting with minority- and women-owned businesses and removing barriers to such increased participation.

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